Shipping basket



Nov. 23 1926.

c. M. HOGUE SHIPPING BASKET 7 Filed Oct. 7. 1922 Qmwntoz I flay/027 /7 /70 0 I attzmqs Patented N ov. 23, 192d.

CLAYTON m. noenn. or sonns, women. I

, smrrme BASKET.-

. shipping basket for fruit or vegetables.

The objects of the invention are,-

First, to provide an effective and staunch basket which has a removable top and bottom cover, the basket. being open at both top and bottom." v

Second, to provide such a structure whlch shall be very staunch and will permit of stacking or piling of the baskets for transportation or storage one upon another without danger of crushing.

Third, to provide such a basket in which the fruit or vegetables can be effectively protected and the basket be filled from the bottom (a means for effective distribution of fruit for display) and the detachable bottom put on and the top cover removed .for eflecti-vely displaying the contents.

Fourth, to provide a package of the character described in which the contents can be effectively separated and divided into layers by paper board or other partitions.

Fifth, to 7 provide improved attaching means for the covers of such baskets either.

for top or bottom.

Still further objects and objects pertaining to details and economies of construction and operation will definitely appear from the detailed description to follow.

I accomplish the objects of my invention by the devices and means described in the following specification. The inyention is clearly defined and pointed out in the claims.

A structure which is a'prefer'red embodiment of my invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawing forming ,a part of this specification, in which:

I is a perspective view of the basket ready for shipping or storage pur oses.

Fig. II is a perspective view 0 my 1mproved basket bottom. side up;

Fig. III is aperspective view of my improved displag' and shipping basket with top,

cover remove I v Fig. IV is a detail sectional view taken on line 4-4 of Fig. II showing details of one of the bottom cover retaining clips.

Fig. V is a detail sectional view taken on line 55 of Fig. II showing details of one of the top cover retaining clips. Fig. VI is a detailed sectional view showing the overlapping side staves of the basket. In the drawing, the sectional views are Application filed October-7, 1922. Serial No. 592,983.

taken looking in the direction of the little arrows at the ends of the section lines and similar numerals of reference refer to similar partsthroughout the several views.

The structure of the basket comp-rises sets of staves or splints suitably secured together by hoops and with hooped top and bottom covers adapted to be retained thereto by suit able clip wires. Considering these parts by their numerals, 1 is the side wall of the basket made up of suitable overlapping staves. These are retained by top, center and bottom hoops 2, 3 and 4, the top and bottom hoops 2 and 4 being double and made of inner and outer members which embrace the ends of the staves between them. These hoops are suitably nailed orotherwise secured to the staves in a basket machine. 5 are the. usual wire handles.

6 is the top cover hoop or rim to which are secured ,top cross slats 7. one of which is of such length that it extends under the handle 5 at 8." Wire clips 9 retain the top cover in place, the same bemg provided with sharp engaging hook points 10 which engage under the inner member of.- the top hoop 2, and they are formed with a hook 11 at the top turned back upon itself at 11' where the same are bent down to engage thntop hoop or rim 6 of the top cover.

12 is a side lining of corrugated board for the basket, and 13 is -a circular ,dis k'lining of corrugated board for the to cover. There may-be interposed at interva basket disks of corrugated board 14 which divide the contents of the basket into horizontal compartments. These of .course may be omitted. When present they serve to form separate substantially air-tight comin the partments in the basket very readily secured because of the tapered sides of the basket, so that whenever one ofthe partitrons is removed it is like opening a fresh in the bottom 4 and is retained in place by Wire fasteners 17 which are bent into a hookat 18 which engage the inner member of the bottom hoop 4. The doubled loop is folded down upon the rim 15 of the botton and clamps the same securely in ipljace,

,manner shown and described, before the.

bottom cover isincorporated in the basket, is esseptialfas a prerequisite to the incorporation of the bottom cover in the-structure of -'the basket, the manner of combining 'the ,bottom cover with the balance of the basket structure may be of any suit? able character, and, may be done in any suitable or, desired manner withoutdepart- 'ing from the spirit of the invention. The top slats and bottom slats form top and bottom, walls which are springy, and the bottom slats will cushion the load, when the basket is right side up, but it is obvious that these slats may be simply straight slats when they are selected for use in the construction of the top and bottom covers.

Thus a springy bottom is provided, to cushion the load, and a springy top is provided,

but the side walls of the basket, although made of thin staves, are prevented from bulging, by the middle or intermediate hoop." Asshown and described, the bottom cover is incorporated fir the'basket by the user, after the basket is filled, but it will be understood that the invention, in its broader aspects, is not limited to any particular method of using the basket, and that the bottom may be incorporated in the basket structure, by the manufacturer, by suitable fastening means, if it is desired to manufacture and sell the baskets finished and ready for packing through the top of the basket,

instead of through the bottom.

Regardless of whether the bottom is in; serted and secured in place by the user, or i by the manufacturer, itis true that the slats of the bottom, of suitable fiat material, are

secured to the upper edge. of the inside bot- 40 tom hoop before this hoop is secured to.

the basket) side Walls, so that in any event the springy material of the bottom is socured to the hoop 'by the insertion of fastening means before this hoop is fastened'bv suitable means to the side wall material.

Thus it will be seen that the hoops 15 and the slats 16, when fastened together by fast eners inserted downwardly'through theslats into the hoop, constitute a preformed bot- 'tom unit, and this bot-tom unit is secured in place by metal fastener devices 17 which engage the said hoop to hold the entire bottom unit in position in the basket. Thus the invention provides for the first time metal fastening devices which engage a bot tom hoop of the basket body, -and which also engage the bottom hoop of the pre formed bottom unit, forming a cushion bottom wall, thereby to hold the entire cushion, bottom unit in position in'the bottom portion ,of the' basket. Thus metal fasteners are provided for the first timefor engaging and connecting the bottom hoop of a prer formed cushion bottom unit with a bottom hoop of the basket body, to thereby hold the entire cushion bottom unit against displacment from the basket.

. Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Let. ters Patent is:- i

1. In a package of the class described, the combination ofconical side walls formed of staves, with top and bottom hoops composed of outer and inner members, detachable covers for said package, the top cover bein formed of a hoop with cross slats secured thereto and adapted to rest upon the top hoop of the package and retained by wire loops hooked under the inner member of the top hoop of the package and. recurved and hooked outwardly over the outside of the cover hoop, the bottom cover of the package comprising a hoop with cross slats disposed'within the bottom hoop and secured by wire loops hooked upon the inner member of the bottom hoop of the package and folded inwardly over the hoop of said bottom cover. f

2. In a package of the class described, the combination of conical side walls formed of staves, with top and bottom hoops composed of outer and inner members, detachable covers for said package, the top" cover being formed of a hoopwith cross slats secured thereto and of a diameter to rest upon the top hoop of the package and retained by wire loops hooked under the inner member of the top hoop of the package and recurved and hooked outwardly over the outside of the (over hoop, the bottom cover of the package comprising a hoop of less diameter J with cross slats disposed within the bottom hoop of the package.

3. In a package of the class described, the combination of conical side walls formed of staves, with top and bottom hoops composed of outer and inner members, detachable covers for said package, the top cover being formed of a hoop with cross slats se- 'cured thereto and adapted to rest upon the top hoop of the package and retained by suitable means, the bottom cover of the 'package comprising a hoop with cross slats disposed within the bottom hoop of the package and secured by wire loops hooked upon the inner member of the "bottom hoop of the package and folded inwardly over the hdop of, the said bottom cover.

4. In a package of the class described, the combination of conical side walls formed of staves, with top and bottom hoops composedof outer and inner members, top and bottom covers for said package, the top cover being formed of a peripheral sup porting hoop adapted to rest upon the top hoop of the package and retained by suitable means, the bottom cover-of the package comprising a peripheral hoop of less 'diameter than the bottom hoop, fitting and disposed detachably within the inside bottom A device adapted to be used for removing a Wheel from an axle upon Which it is keyed comprising a body provided at its opposite ends With alined sockets of different sizes, and anvil plugs fitting in the sockets.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

CASH A. CLEMONS.

the combination of side walls formed of staves and open-at the bottom, outer and inner retaining hoops securing the bottom edge of said wall, a bottom cover for the 1 package comprising a hoop, and wire loops embracing the inner retaining hoop and adapted to fold onto the hoop of the bottom to retain the same.

15. In a package of the class described, the combination of a basket body having non-bulging side walls formed of downwardly converging overlapping staves and open at the bottom, outer and inner retaining hoops securing the bottom edge of said wall,

:' a cushion bot-tom cover for the paclgage formed as a separate unit and comprising a third hoop adapted to-fit within the inner retaining hoop, with a springy cross slat bottom wall secured flatwise to the upper edge of the third hoop, the bottom slats having their end edges disposed within the diameter of the third hoop, so that the outer side of the third hoop is in direct contact with the inner 'retaining hoop, and fasteners for said bottom coacting with said bottom cover hoop and said inner retaining hoop, whereby the bottom of the basket has three concentric hoops. Y

16. In a package of the class described, the combination of a basket body having non-bulging side walls ,formed ofdown wardly converging overlapping staves and open at the bottom, outer and inner retaining hoops securing the bottom edge of said wall, a cushion bottom cover forsthe package formedas a separate unit and comprising a third hoop adapted to fit within the inner retaining hoop, with the springy bottom wall secured flatwise to the upper edge of the third hoop, and fasteners for said' bottom coacting with said bottom cover hoop and said inner retaining hoop, whereby the bottom of the basket has three concentric hoops.

17. In a package of the class described, the combination of side Walls formed of staves and open at the bottom, outer and inner retaining hoops securing the bottom edge of said wall, a bottom cover for the package comprising a hoop adapted to fit within the inner retaining hoop with a bottom wall secured thereto, and wire loops embracing the inner retaining hoop and adapted to fold onto the hoop .of the bottom to retain the same; a

18. A basket comprising a 4 downwardly tapered body having non-bulging side walls formed by downwardly converging overlapping staves and encircling upper and lower and intermediate outside hoops, a preformed cushion bot-tom unit formed of springy flat form and fastened at their ends upon the upper edge of a bottom hoop, with the ends of the slats flush with the outer side of the hoop, so that the slats are entirely above the slats arranged in crisscross' hoop, and wire fastening deyices securing said bottom hoop within the bottom of said body of the basket, necessarily inserted in said bottom hoop after the fabrication of said pro-formed unit, and thereby holding the entire pre-forined bottom unit in place, with the bottom of said preformed unit hoop exposed and forming'the lower inner rim of the bottom of the basket. Y

19. A basket comprising adownwardly tapered body having non-bulging side walls formed by downwardly converging overlapping "staves and encircling top and bottom hoop s, a pie-formed cushion bottom unit formed of fiat material disposed flatwise on the upper edge of a; bottom hoop, fastening means securing the flat material to the upper edge of the hoop, and metal fastening devices engaging and securing said bottomv hoop within the bottom of said body of the basket, necessarily inserted in said bottom hoop after the fabrication of said preformed bottom unit, and thereby holding the entire preformed bottom unit in position, with said flat material entirely between top and bottom hoops composed of outer 7 and inner hoop members, detachable cushion covers for said package, the top cover being formed ofa hoop with springy cross slats secured thereto and adapted to rest upon the top hoop of the package and retained by wire loops hooked under the inner member of the top hoop of the package and recurved and hooked outwardly over the outside of the cover hoop, the bottom cover of the package comprising a hoo with springy cross slats disposed within, the inside bottom hoop member and secured by wire lobps hooked upon the inner member of the bottom hoop of the package andfolded inwardly over the hoop of said bottom cover..

21. In a package of the class described, the combination of conical side walls formed 

